OFFICIAL STATEMENT of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Donetsk People's Republic Regarding Responsibility for the Punitive
Operation and War Crimes Committed on the 2nd of May in the Territory
of the DPR

On the night of the 1st/the 2nd of may armed units subordinate to the
Kiev junta committed war crimes in the territory of the Donetsk People
Republic by attacking the peaceful towns of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk
and using armor and air strike against civilians. Grave crimes against
peace and security have been committed; under the norms of international
law they nave no period of limitation and cannot be ever forgiven.

The orders to
commit those war crimes come from the leaders of illegitimate Kiev regime
Turchinov, Nalyvaichenko, Avakov, Parubiy and other persons who will
be convicted by the future International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Ukraine for war crimes committed against civilians.

That said, the
Kiev terrorists' string-pullers are international financial circles
that spur the illegitimate Kiev authorities towards new atrocities and
acts of terror. Thus, on the 30th of April, 2014, the IMF Executive
board approved terms of a loan for Ukraine and issued a tranche thereof.
After the approval of that loan, the Kiev junta "obtained immediate
access to funds amounting to 3.2 billion US Dollars". Special attention
should be paid to the IMF loan provision term under which the provision
of further tranches within the framework of "emergency access to
the Fund resources" will depend directly on the extent of control
Kiev exercises over the territories of Ukrainian regions. In the present
day-t—day realities that means a direct proportion with the "success"
of the punitive operation carried out by the Ukrainian army in Slavyansk,
Kramatorsk, Donetsk, Lugansk and other population centers that had proclaimed
their refusal to recognize the illegitimate authority of the Kiev junta.

We cannot but
draw attention to the relationship between this IMF tranche and the
war crime. As a mater of fact, punitive operations fraught with a massive
robbery of the population whose living standards have already dropped
by a third are being financed under the cover of talking about "economic
stabilization". It appears that the IMF in the person of its chief
officers must either stop financing of terrorism and an aggressive war
in Europe and disassociate itself with those criminal decisions or fully
share the responsibility for the consequences of its decisions with
the Kiev butchers.

We specifically
mean the persons who adopted the above decisions at the IMF Board meeting
in Washington, DC on the 30th of April, 2014, namely: Christine Lagarde,
Managing Director of the IMF, Reza Moghadam, Director of the IMF European
Department, Jacob Lew, the USA Representative at the IMF board, Jens
Weidmann, the German representative and other IMF functionaries who
took a hand in those decisions.

We call to all
the countries and peoples of the world, to all the politicians who have
not lost their conscience yet to condemn the criminal actions of the
IMF leadership aimed at financing a new war in the territory of Europe.
We also intend to strive for criminal prosecutions of those persons
by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Ukraine for the
financing of war crime and terrorism.

In this connection
we second the position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
according to which "irresponsible and aggressive actions of the
present "Ukrainian" government", can lead to disastrous
consequences, were they ever implemented. Punitive measures taken against
their own people would testify to the Kiev leadership's inability to
fulfill the obligations it undertook under the Geneva Arrangement concluded
on the 17th of April, a.c. in favor of stopping any violence as soon
as possible and starting a broad nationwide dialog with the participation
of all the regions and political forces. We call Kiev, as well as the
USA and the EU, the Geneva arrangements signatories conniving at it
to refrain from making criminal errors, to make a sober estimate of
the gravity of possible consequences of using force against the Ukrainian
people".

We apply to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the leaders of Russia to use their positions
at the international Monetary Fund for immediate termination of the
documents and decisions adopted by a criminal gang of financiers who
are pushing Europe and the world to the brink of a new World War again,
just like they did seventy-five years ago.

As to the so-called
"Geneva Arrangements" whose cornerstone was repudiation of
armed violence, we should acknowledge that their disavowal by Kiev started
immediately after they were signed and ended by a criminal punitive
raid in Slavyansk. We proceed on the basis that such arrangement do
not exist any more and the full and exclusive blame for that lies with
the illegitimate government of Kiev that trampled them down with armor
and combat aircraft under orders from Washington.

We view those
circumstances as a direct and overt support on part of the international
financial elite pushing the present-day Europe towards a possible start
of a new World War. We hope that the world will remember the lessons
and events of the beginning of the World War II, and the role played
then by the international financial capital that financed the military
efforts of the Hitler regime. Unfortunately, the situation repeats itself
today. Just like seventy-five years ago, not only politicians but financiers
as well pose a threat to peace because they are pushing the present-day
Europe to a new war on its territory.

We call the leaders
of the European countries to realize their responsibility for the future
of Europe and to stop supporting the criminal Kiev regime immediately.